the timboucher experience

I just found a pretty decent interview with Daniel Pinchbeck, who wrote a book called, Breaking Open the Head : A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism. I haven’t actually read the book, but I’ve been meaning to. Anyway, this interview leads me to believe he’s a pretty smart guy and that his book would be worth checking out.

There are a couple kinda interesting passages. One was on Rudolf Steiner (founder of Waldorf Schools), about like how thoughts are something something… here, just read it instead of me explaining it:

He notes that you can’t really make a final distinction between our thoughts about things and the things themselves. Thinking, for him, is a part of reality - as much a part of reality as any physical object. He points out that we have no right to consider a plant’s ability to produce leaves, roots, and blossoms as separate from the thoughts we have about that plant. It may be that our thoughts about the plant are as much a property of that plant as its blossoms, stems, and leaves.

He also makes some good points about why Crowley and Leary are important, but also ultimately annoying. Worth checking out… Oh, and there was this thing about grey aliens too:

I don’t think UFOs or the “grey aliens” who like to pop out of them are literal space travelers from another physical planet. I think the Greys are closer to goblins - infraterrestrial or subterrestrial entities, Ahrimanic, to use Steiner’s term. Apparently in the Islamic tradition, they talk about “soulless entities” that are pre-Adamic, pre-human, and the “Greys” seem to fall into that category. Clearly, they have some function to perform - perhaps they are workers or mechanics who help to hold together quantum reality. In many of the abduction accounts, humans are brought to play with the alien or “hybrid human alien” children, who don’t speak and are quite lethargic. Like our children, the Grey children use toys or blocks - but where our blocks show different words and colors when turned, the Greys’ blocks emit different emotions when they are turned. The Greys are telepathic so they do not have to convey concepts to each other, but they are trying - pathetically and rather desperately - to learn how to feel, and they cannot manage this. It seems that they need the emotions - especially fear - emitted by the human energy body in order to sustain themselves. They recognize their lack of souls, and they suffer for it - if you can accept the paradox of an entity without emotion suffering. I see the Greys as a kind of bacteriological agent operating on the level of consciousness. Their purpose may be to filter out denser levels of consciousness that cannot make it through the transition.

Found this interview via the New World Disorder weblog.

• Pinchbeck Preparation
• Stephen Merchant As… Daniel Pinchbeck
• Pinchbeck on Coast to Coast
• Daniel Pinchbeck and the New Psychedelic Elite
• Pinchbeck on Steiner